Michael Lister Books

It’s not too late to discover the lost gospel of Jesus and begin to live by it, to change our direction, to once again become people of the way. We could, with humility, embody compassion and justice. We could so completely trust God that we dare to share what we have with those in need, love those who hate us, bless those who curse us.What’s been lost can be found again. Do we dare? Can we hear the call clearly and be so moved we must respond? If we sense that something profound and precious has been lost, we can do something about it. It’s like a treasure that’s been lost, long since buried in a field. All we have to do is go and sell all we have and buy the field.My goal with this intentionally simple, slim volume (based on scholarship, but not bogged down by notes and references) is to attempt to remove that which has obscured, hidden, and even replaced Jesus and his radical revolution, extricating him from the stiflingly narrow religious context that all but silences him so his message can reverberate around us, resonate within us.There is hope.This can happen.If Jesus teaches us anything, it is that which was once dead can live again, that which was lost can be found.

From Michael Lister, the acclaimed author of “The Meaning of Life in Movies” and “The Meaning of Jesus,” comes a meditation on mindful, meaningful living not to be missed.“You and I can have deeply, profoundly fulfilling and meaningful lives, but not automatically, not effortlessly, not without mindfulness and intention.” Michael Lister

"The scratch of a single match--spark, heat, chemical reaction, fire being born--and an intense thriller begins. Terror reigns over the North Florida National Forest, the coastal town of Bayshore, and the barrier island of Pine Key; a fiery terror whose flame threatens to consume the whole world. An exacting and methodical killer whose weapon is fire is working on his masterpiece, and only a wounded and scarred FDLE agent and a retired ritual crimes expert hiding from the world in a cabin in the woods have any hope of stopping him."--From publisher's website.

Someone is killing cops with their own guns. For his twentieth anniversary as a novelist, Michael Lister is doing something he's never done before--setting a novel in his hometown. And not just any novel. A Merrick McKnight novel that introduces Reggie Summers. A mystery. A thriller. A love story. Merrick McKnight and Michael Lister share many things--chief among them the same small North Florida town of Wewahitchka. Wewa to locals. In keeping with the novel's twenty-year theme, it opens with these I see her for the first time in over twenty years the night before she'll be arrested. Reggie meets Merrick and a thrilling adventure begins. Mystery. Romance. Suspense. All in a small town. Welcome to Wewa. A Certain Retribution is part of the John Jordan Blood Series. The John Jordan From award-winning author and New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Lister. 1) POWER IN THE BLOOD, 2) BLOOD OF THE LAMB, 3) FLESH AND BLOOD, 4) THE BODY AND THE BLOOD, 4.5) DOUBLE EXPOSURE, 5) BLOOD SACRIFICE, 6) RIVERS TO BLOOD, 6.5 BURNT OFFERINGS, 7) INNOCENT BLOOD, 7.5) SEPARATION ANXIETY, 8) BLOOD MONEY, 9) BLOOD MOON, 9.5) THUNDER BEACH, 10) BLOOD CRIES, 10.5) A CERTAIN RETRIBUTION, 11) BLOOD OATH, 12) BLOOD WORK, 13) COLD BLOOD, 14) BLOOD BETRAYAL, 15) BLOOD SHOT, 16) BLOOD TIES, 17) BLOOD STONE, 18) BLOOD TRAIL

This collection offers profound reflections on life, exploring themes of meaning through the lens of cinema. The acclaimed novelist delves into the intersection of personal experiences and film, providing insightful commentary that resonates with both movie lovers and those seeking deeper understanding of existence. Each piece invites readers to contemplate their own lives while appreciating the art of storytelling in film.

A night of revelry turns tragic when four friends venture to a cliffside campsite along the Apalachicola River, only to awaken to the shocking reality that one of them has died. As the remaining trio grapples with the aftermath of this devastating event, they must confront their relationships, secrets, and the choices that led to this fateful night. The story explores themes of friendship, loss, and the consequences of reckless behavior amidst the backdrop of a haunting natural landscape.

In this stunning follow-up to DOUBLE EXPOSURE, Michael Lister once again takes readers down the rural routes and river swamps of wild North Florida. Sixteen-year-old Shelby Emma Summers has disappeared on a late-August day from her famous artist mom's lodge on the banks of the Apalachicola River, just outside the small town of Tupelo. Out in the Gulf, a savage hurricane projected to make landfall in the Panhandle intensifies and expands. Has Shelby been abducted or is she merely skipping school? Is she with her boyfriend, Julian, and if she is, does that make her more or less safe? A fast-paced twisting and turning mystery, a harrowing hurricanic adventure. Told in prose that is poetic, evocative, and muscular, SEPARATION ANXIETY is a timeless, resonate literary thriller of heartbreak and heroism.

Broad-ranging in its coverage and truly international in scope, this major new text introduces all the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues in relation to globalization, new forms of governance, the changing public/private boundary, changes in the powers and capacities of states, and the differences between advanced liberal democratic and other states. Chapters have been specially commissioned to a common format and are written by an international cast of leading authorities.

When Remington James returns to the small North Florida town he grew up in, he decides to resume his love for photography. Remington ventures into the deep swamp where he has already set up some cameras to discover that his camera has captured, frame-by-frame a shocking crime.

The end. Book 1 Complete in 5 Parts. This is the way the world ends! When the end comes it comes with astonishing speed. It has been a slow build to the brink, but once the point of no return has been breached, night falls fast. Disasters, avoidable and not, and the inhuman responses to humanity’s existential crises, every tipping point tipping us over the ragged rim, into a black abyss from which there is no return. One man walks alone on a lonely road in search of his loved ones in a wasteland that used to be the world. Though danger lurks around every bend of the desolate landscape he is undaunted and will be undeterred. His mission is simple if nearly impossible – find his family and friends who are still alive. Encountering survivors who range from colorful characters to deadly adversaries, his journey is as much inward as it is outward, revealing as much about himself and the other survivors as the bleak new world they now inhabit. Warned to stay away from the coast, he heads directly into danger, choosing death over a world without his remaining loved ones in it. But is he too late? And if he’s not, is he up to the task of saving them?